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Two minutes later, Leonard hit tight end Trevor Gillott for a 39-yard scoring play.

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The claim of Levesley to having invented the process of grinding pens and teaching Gillott seems, to say the least, curious, because the latter was a Sheffield grinder, and the idea would certainly be quite as likely to occur to Gillott as Levesley.

The Story of the Invention of Steel Pens With a Description of the Manufacturing Process by Which They Are Produced Henry Bore

"The first stick pen holders I made for Perry in 1832, and for Gillott in 1835, and sold sticks to Gillott in 1840 -- L.293 18s. 7d."

The Story of the Invention of Steel Pens With a Description of the Manufacturing Process by Which They Are Produced Henry Bore

My informant described not only the beneficial action of this thinning of the metal, as well in yielding the gradual flow of the ink as in flexibility of writing, but the pleasure with which he took a specimen to Birmingham to show Gillott, and the surprise of the latter at so great and so beneficial an effect, provided by so small a cause.

The Story of the Invention of Steel Pens With a Description of the Manufacturing Process by Which They Are Produced Henry Bore

Besides, why did Levesley communicate the idea to Gillott in preference to Skinner, with whom he had business relations?

The Story of the Invention of Steel Pens With a Description of the Manufacturing Process by Which They Are Produced Henry Bore

Gillott had taken out a patent in 1831, and the names of both Mitchell and Gillott appeared as penmakers in _Wrightson's Birmingham

The Story of the Invention of Steel Pens With a Description of the Manufacturing Process by Which They Are Produced Henry Bore

Stress has been laid upon the improvement of the double slit, introduced by Gillott, but if Levesley's statement is to be taken literally, he was the inventor of a specialty upon which, even more than on excellence of material, the merit of a steel pen is found to depend, viz., the grinding of a small hollow at the back of the nib, and about the eighth of an inch from the point.

The Story of the Invention of Steel Pens With a Description of the Manufacturing Process by Which They Are Produced Henry Bore

Mitchell, Gillott, and Mason -- who might have done something toward fixing the date of the invention of manufacturing pens by the adaptation of tools worked by the screw press, only one -- Mason -- made a statement:

The Story of the Invention of Steel Pens With a Description of the Manufacturing Process by Which They Are Produced Henry Bore

It could not have been Gillott, as he was not tall and the father of "Anon" knew him; and Mitchell was also a short man.

The Story of the Invention of Steel Pens With a Description of the Manufacturing Process by Which They Are Produced Henry Bore

This circumstance has no doubt contributed to involve in obscurity the early operations of Mitchell and Gillott.

The Story of the Invention of Steel Pens With a Description of the Manufacturing Process by Which They Are Produced Henry Bore